- [first lines]
- Perry White: Now look here, Kent, you can't pick your assignments. Hurry over and cover that consumers' meeting.
- Clark Kent: But, Chief...
- Perry White: But nothing! That's final.
- [title sequence]
- Voices: Up in the sky, look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!
- Narrator: Faster than a streak of lightning! More powerful than the pounding surf! Mightier than a roaring hurricane! This amazing stranger from the planet Krypton, the Man of Steel, Superman! Possessing remarkable physical strength, Superman fights a never-ending battle for truth and justice, disguised as a mild-mannered newspaper reporter, Clark Kent.